AbstractAssociation rules provide important knowledge that can be extracted from transactional databases. Owing to the massive exchange of information nowadays, databases become dynamic and change rapidly and periodically: new transactions are added to the database and/or old transactions are updated or removed from the database. Incremental mining was introduced to overcome the problem of maintaining previously generated association rules in dynamic databases. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm (IMIDB) for incremental itemset mining in large databases. The algorithm utilizes the trie data structure for indexing dynamic database transactions. Performance comparison of the proposed algorithm to recently cited algorithms shows that a significant improvement of about two orders of magnitude is achieved by our algorithm. Also, the proposed algorithm exhibits linear scalability with respect to database size.
Association rules, introduced by Agrawal, Imielinski and Swami (1993), provide useful means to discover associations in data. The problem of mining association rules in a database is defined as finding all the association rules that hold with more than a user-given minimum support threshold and a user-given minimum confidence threshold. According to Agrawal, Imielinski and Swami, this problem is solved in two steps: 1. Find all frequent itemsets in the database. 2. For each frequent itemset I, generate all the association rules I’ÞI\I’, where I’ÌI.
A Plausible Comprehensive Web Intelligent System for Investigation of Web User Behaviour Adaptable to Incremental Mining
